AS a psychologist conducting research into the emotional abuse of women, I would like to hear from women who have been traumatised through a relationship where compulsive lying, deception and lack of conscience was encountered in a male partner.

If your life has been torn apart through the manipulation and deception of a charmer, please send brief details in strict confidence of your own experiences to me. Replies will be forwarded to all letters.

CHRISTINE KIRKMAN, Senior Lecturer, Health and Social Studies Department, Bolton Institute, Deane Road, Bolton BL3 5AB.